I find myself "partializing" in ways partial() doesn't support more often than not. E.g.

lambda first, third: myfunc(first, 42, third)

I think it's good to have partial() in functools, but it's two orders of magnitude less common than things that should be in builtins.

On Sep 20, 2016 9:42 AM, "Ryan Gonzalez" <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
> lambda *args, **kw: myfunc(partial_arg, *args, **kw)
>
> which isn't more readable than just:
>
> partial(myfunc, partial_func)